Loneliness as a Gateway Moments of doubt, when the stakes are high and critical decisions must be made, and there’s no one alongside you.The weight of accountability, juggling multiple perspectives and expectations that few can truly measure or value.Not seen as fully...
Listening to the Early Signals Before Burnout Middle managers are asked to absorb pressure from above and implement often uncomfortable change below– sometimes at the cost of their team’s trust and their own alignment.Inside, it feels harder to sustain.Responsibility...
Leading from the Middle and from Within When the tension of middle managers can become their path to inner mastery (1)Middle management is a place of tension.As a middle manager, you are the bridge.Caught between responsibilities from above, expectations from below,...
Wishes for a Year of Flourishing Wishes for a Year of Flourishing🌍 At this threshold between years, many of us feel our inner and outer worlds unsettled – amid transitions, uncertainty, and conflicts.In moments like these, what shapes the future most profoundly is the...
Receiving A brush of the hand (Part II) — Receiving.True peace didn’t arrive for me with a treaty — it arrived with a single brush of the hand, many decades later.As a young child in the wartime of Cambodia, I couldn’t make sense of the powers at play; all I knew was...
Giving A brush of the hand (Part I) — Giving.In support of rural communities recovering from mass traumas, I facilitated a renewal workshop last year for the entire staff of a social-impact company in Cambodia.Recently in our new online leadership program, the...
